CASAS, BARTHOLOME DE LAS. An Account Of the First Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spaniards in America. Containing the most Exact Relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd Cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above Forty Millions of People. London: J. Darby for D. Brown, J. Harris and Andrew Bell 1699. 8vo, contemporary calf, covers blind-panelled in the Cambridge style, paper title label on spine lettered in ink and remains of a second bearing a shelf number, upper cover detached, large scrape to upper cover, 1/2 inch gouge to lower cover, modern folding chemise and slipcase, paper flaw to margin of one of the plates, not affecting the image, most leaves foxed, a few severely so, conjugate leaves A1.4 and quire S apparently supplied from another copy. Two folding etched plates after de Bry, with 6 and 16 scenes respectively. | Christie's

Lot 36

CASAS, BARTHOLOME DE LAS. An Account Of the First Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spaniards in America. Containing the most Exact Relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd Cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above Forty Millions of People. London: J. Darby for D. Brown, J. Harris and Andrew Bell 1699. 8vo, contemporary calf, covers blind-panelled in the Cambridge style, paper title label on spine lettered in ink and remains of a second bearing a shelf number, upper cover detached, large scrape to upper cover, 1/2 inch gouge to lower cover, modern folding chemise and slipcase, paper flaw to margin of one of the plates, not affecting the image, most leaves foxed, a few severely so, conjugate leaves A1.4 and quire S apparently supplied from another copy. Two folding etched plates after de Bry, with 6 and 16 scenes respectively.

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CASAS, BARTHOLOME DE LAS. An Account Of the First Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spaniards in America. Containing the most Exact Relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd Cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above Forty Millions of People. London: J. Darby for D. Brown, J. Harris and Andrew Bell 1699. 8vo, contemporary calf, covers blind-panelled in the Cambridge style, paper title label on spine lettered in ink and remains of a second bearing a shelf number, upper cover detached, large scrape to upper cover, 1/2 inch gouge to lower cover, modern folding chemise and slipcase, paper flaw to margin of one of the plates, not affecting the image, most leaves foxed, a few severely so, conjugate leaves A1.4 and quire S apparently supplied from another copy. Two folding etched plates after de Bry, with 6 and 16 scenes respectively.

A translation of the French edition of 1697, containing six of Las Casas's nine tracts on Spanish atrocities in the New World. The folding plates are frequently lacking. Church 780; Field 881; Sabin 11289; Wing C 797.

Provenance: Marquess of Tweesdale, eighteenth-century armorial bookplate.