CULTURAL READINGS: Colonization & Print in the Americas

Jay I. Kislak Foundation	Hernando Cortés, Praeclara Ferdinandi Cortesii de nova maris oceani Hyspania narratio... Nuremberg: F. Peypus, 1524.
Cortés sent five reports to Charles V detailing his progress in the conquest of Mexico. This edition contains the second and third reports; first published in Seville in 1522, it was translated into Latin for this 1524 Nuremberg edition.

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Promotion and Possession

• [Return to] New Spain
• The English Colonies
• New France

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