VOYAGES AND THE AMERICAS
BARTOLOMé DE LAS CASAS (1474-1566)
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BARTOLOMé DE LAS CASAS (1474-1566)
Narratio Regionum Indicarum per Hispanos Quosdam Devastatarum Trissima...Frankfurt: de Bry & J. Saurius, 1598.
Small 4° (198 x 150cm). Title within engraved historiated border. (Some light spotting and worming to outer margin of title trimmed to platemark.) 17 engraved illustrations by Jodocus Winghe. 18th century vellum, gilt.
This is the first Latin translation of Las Casas's "Brevissima relación", which is part of the great "Colección de viajes" published by the Bry brothers and contains the earliest impressions of the famous series of plates depicting the atrocities inflicted by the Spanish on the Indians. Sabin 11283. Palau 46960.
Narratio Regionum Indicarum per Hispanos Quosdam Devastatarum Trissima...Frankfurt: de Bry & J. Saurius, 1598.
Small 4° (198 x 150cm). Title within engraved historiated border. (Some light spotting and worming to outer margin of title trimmed to platemark.) 17 engraved illustrations by Jodocus Winghe. 18th century vellum, gilt.
This is the first Latin translation of Las Casas's "Brevissima relación", which is part of the great "Colección de viajes" published by the Bry brothers and contains the earliest impressions of the famous series of plates depicting the atrocities inflicted by the Spanish on the Indians. Sabin 11283. Palau 46960.