History of the Conquest of Peru, with a preliminary view of the Civilization of the Incas.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1847.
Price: $400.00
About the item
First edition. Engraved portrait frontispieces, facsimile, map. 2 vols. 8vo. Original publishers' blind-stamped brown cloth. Covers slightly faded and rubbed, remnants of library labels removed from spines, darkening to endpapers, occasional light spotting to text. Ex-library, with bookplate and one other from private owner on front pastedowns. Sabin 65272; BAL 16346.
Item #214253
The classic work on the subject, going through scores of editions, Prescott's "Peru" was one of the standard household books for the later part of the Nineteenth century. Though included in the Grolier Club exhibition of One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature it was not included in their catalogue of One Hundred American Books ... simply because "Prescott's Conquest of Mexico ... came first and set a new American standard for the use of source materials." This standard he maintained in his History of the Conquest of Peru.
