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ACOSTA, Jose de (1540-1600). Historia Naturale e Morale delle Indie ... nouamente tradotta della lingua Spagnuola nella Italiane. Translated by Giovanni Paolo Galluci (1538-1621?). Venice: Bernardo Basa, 1596.
4° (214 x 159 mm). (Small marginal repair on title, slightly cockled, very pale dampstaining at end.) Contemporary vellum (recased repairing extremities); green quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: F. Marianus (early ink inscription on title); Rhode Island Historical Society (inkstamp on title); John Carter Brown Library (bookplate with duplicate stamp).
"THE FIRST OF THE TRUE AMERICANISTS" (DSB)
FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN, a translation of Historia natural y moral de las Indias (Seville, 1590), which was reprinted in 1600, 1619, and 1621. Acosta was a Jesuit who in 1572, at his own request, was sent to the New World. After fourteen years in Peru, ultimately becoming the second Provincial of the Jesuit order, he traveled to Mexico before returning to Spain. De Procuranda is one of the first published works recording contemporary European concepts of barbarity and programs for "civilizing" natives. Adams A128; Alden & Landis 596/2; JCB (1919) I, p. 339; Medina BHA, 330n (I, p. 501); Sabin 124 ("The only Italian version, printed with the types of Aldus").
4° (214 x 159 mm). (Small marginal repair on title, slightly cockled, very pale dampstaining at end.) Contemporary vellum (recased repairing extremities); green quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: F. Marianus (early ink inscription on title); Rhode Island Historical Society (inkstamp on title); John Carter Brown Library (bookplate with duplicate stamp).
"THE FIRST OF THE TRUE AMERICANISTS" (DSB)
FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN, a translation of Historia natural y moral de las Indias (Seville, 1590), which was reprinted in 1600, 1619, and 1621. Acosta was a Jesuit who in 1572, at his own request, was sent to the New World. After fourteen years in Peru, ultimately becoming the second Provincial of the Jesuit order, he traveled to Mexico before returning to Spain. De Procuranda is one of the first published works recording contemporary European concepts of barbarity and programs for "civilizing" natives. Adams A128; Alden & Landis 596/2; JCB (1919) I, p. 339; Medina BHA, 330n (I, p. 501); Sabin 124 ("The only Italian version, printed with the types of Aldus").