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Vocabulario en lengua Castellana y Mexicana (Vocabulary in Castilian and Mexican Language) by Fray Alonso de Molina, 1571.

Advertencias para los confessores de los naturales (Warnings for Confessors of the Indians) by Juan Bautista, 1600-1601.

Modern edition (1960) of “Ordenanzas de buen gobierno” (“Ordinances of Good Governance”) issued by Hernán Cortés on March 20, 1524.

Excerpt from Historia general de las Indias y conquista de México (General History of the Indies and Conquest of Mexico) by Francisco López de Gómara, first published 1552. In La cosmographia by Peter Apian, 1575.

French edition (1620) of Brevissima relación de la destrucción de las Indias (A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies) by Bartolomé de las Casas, first published 1552.

Nineteenth-century edition (1844) of Historia antigua de México (Ancient History of Mexico) by Francisco Javier Clavijero, first published 1780-1781.

Modern English edition (1942) of Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (True History of the Conquest of New Spain) by Bernal Díaz del Castillo, first published 1632.

Modern edition (1982) of the Spanish text and images from the Florentine Codex, published as Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (General History of the Things of New Spain) by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, first published…

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.

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