LibGuides: Primary Sources: Exploration & Discovery: Cortés, Hernán

Book Sources: Hernán Cortés

An account of the conquest of Guatemala in 1524 by Pedro de Alvarado by Sedley J. Mackie (editor)
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
"Two letters to Hernando Cortes, containing the official report of the conquest of Guatemala. First printed as an appendix to the fourth letter of relation of Hernando Cortes, Toledo, 1525. Now published for the first time in English"
Cartas de Relación de la Conquista de México by Hernán Cortés
Call Number: F1230.C828 C3
Conquest : Dispatches of Cortes from the New World by Hernán Cortés
Call Number: F1230.C828 C67
Introductions and commentaries by Irwin R. Blacker ; texts by Harry M. Rosen ; maps by Hope Blacker.
The fifth letter of Hernan Cortes to the Emperor Charles V by Hernan Cortes
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
containing an account of his expedition to Honduras / translated from the original spanish by Pascual de Gayangos
Five letters, 1519-1526 by Hernán Cortés
Call Number: F1230.C828 F5
Letters from Mexico by Hernán Cortés; Anthony Pagden (Editor, Translator)
Call Number: Online - EBSCO Ebooks
ISBN: 9780300090949

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