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JUAN DE TORQUEMADA (?1563-1624)
Primera [- Segunda y Tercera] Parte de los veinte i un libros rituales i Monarchia Indiana y con el origen y guerras de los Indios Ocidentales, de sus poblaciones, descubrimiento, conquista, conversion. Madrid: Nicolas Rodriguez Franco, 1723 [1725?] 3 vols. 2° (300 x 205). Engraved allegorical title-pages by Irala, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, with the folding engraved map of the Pacific Ocean, the Americas, Pacific Islands and China coast by Antonio de Herrera. Contemporary laced vellum with cord clasps, spines lettered, modern morocco-backed box. Provenance: Manuel Fernández Durán, the Marqués de Perales, Madrid, his letterpress book label on title-page versos. Modern morocco-backed box.
A SUPERB SET OF THE SECOND AND BEST EDITION of this key work, a magnificent history of New Spain by the Franciscan provincial superior of Mexico, corrected for this edition by Barcia Carballido y Zúñiga and dated by him in the Preface, January, 1725. The work makes particular use of the unpublished manuscript of Gerónimo Mendieta who reached Mexico in 1554 and spent his life among the Indians. His highly critical work on the exploitation of the Indians by the colonists was not published separately until 1870. This is also the primary source for Sebastian Vizcaino's 1596 and 1620 expeditions and voyages of discovery to California, and further includes the expeditions of Juan de Oñate Coronado, and the 1684 voyage of Miguel López de Legazpi to the Philippines. Most copies of the first edition, Seville, 1615, were lost in a shipwreck on the voyage to Mexico. Palau 335033; Sabin 96212; Medina, Hispano-Americana 2491; Hill 1707. (3)
Primera [- Segunda y Tercera] Parte de los veinte i un libros rituales i Monarchia Indiana y con el origen y guerras de los Indios Ocidentales, de sus poblaciones, descubrimiento, conquista, conversion. Madrid: Nicolas Rodriguez Franco, 1723 [1725?] 3 vols. 2° (300 x 205). Engraved allegorical title-pages by Irala, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, with the folding engraved map of the Pacific Ocean, the Americas, Pacific Islands and China coast by Antonio de Herrera. Contemporary laced vellum with cord clasps, spines lettered, modern morocco-backed box. Provenance: Manuel Fernández Durán, the Marqués de Perales, Madrid, his letterpress book label on title-page versos. Modern morocco-backed box.
A SUPERB SET OF THE SECOND AND BEST EDITION of this key work, a magnificent history of New Spain by the Franciscan provincial superior of Mexico, corrected for this edition by Barcia Carballido y Zúñiga and dated by him in the Preface, January, 1725. The work makes particular use of the unpublished manuscript of Gerónimo Mendieta who reached Mexico in 1554 and spent his life among the Indians. His highly critical work on the exploitation of the Indians by the colonists was not published separately until 1870. This is also the primary source for Sebastian Vizcaino's 1596 and 1620 expeditions and voyages of discovery to California, and further includes the expeditions of Juan de Oñate Coronado, and the 1684 voyage of Miguel López de Legazpi to the Philippines. Most copies of the first edition, Seville, 1615, were lost in a shipwreck on the voyage to Mexico. Palau 335033; Sabin 96212; Medina, Hispano-Americana 2491; Hill 1707. (3)
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