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  • Collection: In the Shadow of Cortes

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Book Six, laws pertaining to indigenous peoples. In Recopilación de leyes de los reynos de las Indias (Compilation of the Laws of the Kingdoms of the Indies), 1681.

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English edition (1724) of Historia de la conquista de México (History of the Conquest of Mexico) by Antonio de Solís, translated by Thomas Townsend, first published 1684.

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Second letter from Hernán Cortés to Charles V of Spain, dated October 30, 1520. In Terzo volvme delle navigationi et viaggi (Third Volume of Navigations and Travels) by Giovanni Battista Ramusio, 1565.

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Modern map of the world by Johannes Ruysch. In the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemy, 1508.

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Maps of the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola [Haiti and the Dominican Republic], Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Saint Margarita by Abraham Ortelius, 1611.
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