History of the Conquest of Peru, William Prescott, 1848, [2vols]

Description:

A mid-nineteenth-century English edition of Prescott’s classic historical study of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, first published in 1847. Noted for its narrative clarity and use of contemporary sources, the work established Prescott’s reputation as a leading historian of the Americas.

Condition:

Fair Condition. Half bound in brown calf with marble paper covered boards. Binding is firm and pages are clean. Neat previous owner's inscription to end paper dated 1868. Marble edges. Front hinge to vol 2 is slightly loose with some cracking. Boards have some notable edge-wear with some peeling to edges and bumping to corners. More notable spine wear with peeling to spine ends and some notable loss to lettering plate to spine (vol 1).