“The Conquest of Mexico” by William H. Prescott

Famous book, of the time, with illustrations by Miquel Covarrubias. Copyright 1949 by Heritage Press, New York. Hardcover has 558 pages. A great resource for those interested in the history of Mexico. I came across this book title in a column about "Books So Good No One Can Top It". Prescott was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by American historiographers to have been the first scientific historian. He was admired for his exhaustive, careful, and systematic use of archives, his accurate recreation of sequences of events, his balanced judgments and his lively writing style. In Very Good vintage condition.