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Scenery to be used in a toy theatre: a landscape with a lake, palm trees and a hut with a pathway leading to it. Lithograph.

Scenery to be used in a toy theatre: a lake surrounded by palm trees. Lithograph.

Scenery to be used in a toy theatre: the camp of Cortez in Mexico. Lithograph.

Scenery to be used in a toy theatre: a rocky overhang, a palm tree and vegetation, trees and bushes and a ceremonial fire casket decorated with dragons. Lithograph.

Scenery to be used in a toy theatre: a rocky overhang with a water fall looks out over the water towards a a mountainous area. Lithograph.

The conquest of Mexico / [W.H. Prescott.] edited by J.F. Kirk.

Scenery to be used in a toy theatre: a church and gardens overlooking mountains in Mexico. Lithograph.

Les syphilitiques de la campagne de Fernand Cortés / par D. Jourdanet.

Homenaje á Cristóbal Colón : antigüedades mexicanas / publicadas por la Junta colombina de México en el cuarto centenario del descubrimiento de América.

Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.

Historia de Nueva-España / escrita por su esclarecido conquistador Hernan Cortes, aumentada con otros docvmentos, y notas por el ilustrissimo Señor Don Francisco Antonio Lorenzana, Arzobispo de Mexico. Con las licencias necesarias.

Letters of Cortes : the five letters of relation from Fernando Cortes to the Emperor Charles V / translated and edited, with a biographical introd. and notes compiled from original sources, by Francis Augustus MacNutt.

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Historia de Nueva-España / escrita por su esclarecido conquistador Hernan Cortes, aumentada con otros docvmentos, y notas por el ilustrissimo Señor Don Francisco Antonio Lorenzana, Arzobispo de Mexico. Con las licencias necesarias.

Letters of Cortes : the five letters of relation from Fernando Cortes to the Emperor Charles V / translated and edited, with a biographical introd. and notes compiled from original sources, by Francis Augustus MacNutt.