VOLLBEHR'S COPY

CORTES, HERNANDO. Praeclara Fernandi. Cortesii de Noua maris Oceani Hyspania Narratio... Per Petrum Savorgnanum in latinum versa. Title within a woodcut border, woodcut arms of Charles V on verso of the title, woodcut portrait of Pope Clement VII on verso of fourth leaf, wood engraved printer's mark. 66 leaves (including the blank), bound with Peter Martyr's De rebus, et Insulis nouiter Repertis preceding Cortes's account (as in the Church copy). Folio, later 1/ 2 calf, minor wear; hinges reinforced; minor foxing, minor repaired worm holes but with minor loss to text; bookplates on the front pastedown (Otto H. F. Vollbehr, Frederick Spiegelberg), early catalogue clippings mounted to the front endpapers. Lacking the folding plan of Mexico City (as in most copies). Nuremberg: Fredericus Peypus, 1524