Part of a 9-volume collection of canonical illustrations of the New World, Volume 8 of de Bry's Americæ introduces readers to visions of Sir Walter Raleigh's, Francis Drake's, and Thomas Candisch's expeditions in the Western Hemisphere.
Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico analyzes the politics of the multiple correspondences between the Spanish conquistador party and the Aztecs from their initial meeting to the fall of the Aztec empire in modern day Mexico.