Cartas de Relacion de la conquista de la Nueva Espana

This handsome volume of the Cartas de Relacion de la conquista de la Nueva Espana provides a facsimile reproduction of Codex Vindobonensis S. N. 1600, which contains the five so-called relaciónes of Hernán Cortés, two relaciónes by Pedro Alvarado, the relación of Diego de Godoy, the relación of the journey of Francisco Pizarro and Diego Almagro, the message carried by Antonio Giral to Alvaro de Saavedra Ceron, and the patent authorizing the original twelve Franciscan friars to come to Mexico. These firsthand accounts makes this collected volume an incomparable resource on the period of conquest that created the Spanish Empire in the New World. The photographic reproduction is preceded by an introduction and bibliography (in English) by Charles Gibson, and by a description of the manuscript by Dr. Franz Unterkircher.