Ally of Cortes: Account 13, of the Coming of the Spaniards and the Beginning of the Evangelical Law

xxxviii+141 pages with frontispiece, illustrations, appendix, glossary and bibliography. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter green cloth with gilt lettering to spine over orange pictorial boards in original pictorial jacket. Translated with a foreword by Douglas Ballentine. This work paints the origins of the forced marriage of Spanish and Indian cultures. Here in its translation into English is the account of the Conquest which probably reveals the violent encounter more perceptively than any other written at that time. The events are set into perspective in the translator's foreword. Condition: Previous owner's initials on front end paper and name to front pastedown. Jacket edge wear with small chips, spine ends lightly chipped else very good in like jacket.