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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> AS THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO has occupied the pens of Sol?s and of Robertson two of the ablest historians of their respective nations it might seem that little could remain at the present day to be gleaned by the historical inquirer. But Robertson’s narrative is necessarily brief forming only part of a more extended work; and neither the British nor the Castilian author was provided with the important materials for relating this event which have been since assembled by the industry of Spanish scholars. The scholar who led the way in these researches was Don Juan Baptista Mu?oz the celebrated historiographer of the Indies who by a royal edict was allowed free access to the national archives and to all libraries public private and monastic in the kingdom and its colonies. The result of his long labours was a vast body of materials of which unhappily he did not live to reap the benefit himself. His manuscripts were deposited after his death in the archives of the Royal Academy of History at Madrid; and that collection was subsequently augmented by the manuscripts of Don Vargas Pon?e President of the Academy obtained like those of Mu?oz. (MP)