This weekend I had the good fortune to pick up a copy of William Prescott's
two volume "The Conquest of Peru" (Harper & Brothers). Volume 1 is 1848,
so
presumably a second printing, but Volume 2 is dated 1847, and lacks a
period
on p. 467, l. 20, after the word "integrity", which is apparently a first
issue point, according to Van Allen Bradley. By coincidence, two days
earlier I had purchased a later copy (1892 or so) of Prescott's "The
Conquest of Mexico".
Francis A. Miniter
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