Prescott william text by (2 Ergebnisse)
Weitere BilderVerlag: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London, 1889
- Hardcover
Anbieter: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, USAERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB)
Verkäufer/-in kontaktierenVerkäufer/-in mit 4 SternenZustand: Gebraucht
EUR 75,39
EUR 4,31 VersandVersand innerhalb von USAAnzahl: 1 verfügbar
In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: g to vg. New and Revised edition. Large octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4"). XXIV, [2], 713, [1]pp. Contemporary full calf school binding, with gold lettering and tooling to spine, and seal of the Bedford School in gilt on front cover. Raised bands. Blind-stamped dentelles. Marbled endpapers and paper edges. Publisher's…device on title page. Originally published in 1843, "The History of the Conquest of Mexico" is universally considered the author's magnum opus. Indeed, William H. Prescott's sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This new and revised edition of the pioneering study presents a compelling view of the clash of civilizations that reverberates in Latin America to this day. All the chief actors of Prescott's great historic drama not only live and breathe, but they are as distinctly differentiated as they must have been in life. After a preliminary view of ancient Mexican civilization, Prescott takes the reader in 1519, the year Cortes embarks from Cuba with the aim of claiming Mexico for Spain. Arriving in the capital, he is made welcome by the divine ruler, Montezuma, and the two men become friends. Montezuma comes to believe that Cortes is, in fact, the ancient Aztec god, Quetzalcoatl. Cortes' attempts to convert Montezuma to Christianity fail. He takes his counterpart prisoner, but within chivalrous limits. The arrival of a new body of Spaniards, seeking to overthrow Cortes, whom they see as a vainglorious rebel, revives the tension. Eventually, Montezuma dies and a fierce, bloody battle ensues. Moderate and sporadic rubbing along edges of binding. Binding in overall good to good+, interior in very good condition.
History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth, With an Account of the Emperor's Life After His Abdication. 2-vol. set (Complete)
Robertson, William (Text by); William H. Prescott (Appendix by)
Verlag: George Routledge and Sons, London, 1870
- Hardcover
Anbieter: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, USAERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB)
Verkäufer/-in kontaktierenVerkäufer/-in mit 4 SternenZustand: Gebraucht
EUR 84,26
EUR 4,31 VersandVersand innerhalb von USAAnzahl: 1 verfügbar
In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: g+ to vg. Later edition. Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/4"). xvi, 658pp (Vol. 1); viii, 705, [1]pp. Original 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling to spines. Raised bands. Top edge of each volume gilt. Marbled endpapers. Tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait in first volume.… Charles V (1500-1558) was a Fleming royal of the Austrian House of Habsburg and the Castillan House of Trastamara who ruled the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation from 1519 as Emperor Charles V, the Spanish Empire from 1516 as King Charles I, and the Low Countries from 1506 as Duke Charles II. The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Incas, and the German colonisation of Venezuela both occurred during his reign. Charles V revitalized the medieval concept of the universal monarchy of Charlemagne and travelled from city to city, with no single fixed capital: overall he spent 28 years in the Habsburg Netherlands (primarily Bruxelles), 18 years in Spain (notably Toledo and Extremadura) and 9 years in Germany. "After four decades of incessant warfare with the Kingdom of France, the Ottoman Empire, and the Protestants, Charles V abandoned his multi-national project with a series of abdications between 1554 and 1556 in favor of his son Philip II of Spain and his own brother Ferdinand of Austria. The personal union of his European and American territories, spanning over nearly 4 million square kilometres (1.545,000 square miles), was the first collection of realms to be defined as "the empire on which the sun never sets." For more information, see: Michael Tarver's "The Spanish Empire: A Historical Encyclopaedia," ABC-Clio (2016). Minor and sporadic rubbing along edges of bindings. Bindings in overall good+, interior in very good condition.
