Offered in this lot is an 1843 Volume II and III of "History of The Conquest Of Mexico" By William H. Prescott. "It is a magnificent epic," said William H. Prescott after the publication of “History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843”. Since then, his account of Cortés' conquest of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study presents a compelling view of the clash of civilizations that reverberates in Latin America to this day.