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The pleasant historie of the conquest of the West India, : now called New Spaine. atchieued by the most woorthie prince Hernando Cortes ... (1596)

López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1564, Ternaux-Compans, Henri, 1807-1864. fmo RPJCB · London : Printed by Thomas Creede · leaf 28

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Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547 · Indian linguistics · Imprint 1596

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