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[LOPEZ DE GOMARA, FRANCISCO]. The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the West India, now called Spaine. Atchieued by...Hernando Cortes...Translated out of the Spanish tongue, by T[homas] N[icholas]. London: Printed by Thomas Creede 1596. Small 4to, early eighteenth -century Cambridge-style speckled panelled calf, red sprinkled edges, half-morocco slipcase. Second edition in English, black letter, woodcut initials and title-page printer's device, leaf of English and Latin verses by Stephen Gosson in praise of the translator.
The book, (the first edition in English was 1578) gives an account of the whole range of the Spanish conquests in America, down to the middle of the sixteenth century and comprises the second portion of the Historia General de las Indias, the first part of which was not translated into English. Lopez de Gomara had been Cortes's secretary. "Contains the first printed accounts of the Cortes expeditions to California, the expeditions of Francisco Ulloa, Marcos de Niza, Coronado, the subsidiary expeditions resulting from the last, and the voyage of Cabrillo"--Streeter sale I, 191 (the 1578 English edition, quoting Wagner's Spanish Southwest); Hill, p. 126; Boies Penrose sale 151; Sabin 27752; STC 16808. A fine copy.
Provenance: "Wlater Savagejan, 1706," inscription on front endpaper.
The book, (the first edition in English was 1578) gives an account of the whole range of the Spanish conquests in America, down to the middle of the sixteenth century and comprises the second portion of the Historia General de las Indias, the first part of which was not translated into English. Lopez de Gomara had been Cortes's secretary. "Contains the first printed accounts of the Cortes expeditions to California, the expeditions of Francisco Ulloa, Marcos de Niza, Coronado, the subsidiary expeditions resulting from the last, and the voyage of Cabrillo"--Streeter sale I, 191 (the 1578 English edition, quoting Wagner's Spanish Southwest); Hill, p. 126; Boies Penrose sale 151; Sabin 27752; STC 16808. A fine copy.
Provenance: "Wlater Savagejan, 1706," inscription on front endpaper.