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The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called New Spayne, atchieued by the vvorthy prince Hernando Cortes ... (1578)

López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1564, Nicholas, Thomas, fl. 1560-1596, Ternaux-Compans, Henri, 1807-1864. fmo RPJCB · Imprinted at London : By Henry Bynneman · leaf 230

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Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547 · Indian linguistics · Imprint 1578

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