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The general history of the vast continent and islands of America, commonly call'd, the West Indies : from the first discovery thereof : with the best accounts the people could give of their antiquities. Collected from the original relations sent to the King of Spain / by Antonio de Herrera, historiographer to His Catholick Majesty ; translated into English by Capt. John Stevens.

By:

Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, -1625

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Language: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: London : Printed for Jer. Batley at the Dove in Pater-noster-row, MDCCXXV-MDCCXXVI [1725-1726]Description: 6 volumes ([9], 379, [1] ; [1], 436; [1], 418 ; [3], 422, [2] ; [2], 430, [2] ; [2], 408, [32] pages) : illustrations (some folded), folded maps, portraits ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

Uniform titles:

Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos. English. Selections

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LOC classification:

E141 .H59

Contents:

Frontispieces and further plates include: portrait of Christopher Columbus (vol. 1). -- 'A new map of South America' (vol. 2). -- 'A new map of as much of North and South America ... ' (vol. 3). -- "An hidrographical draught of Mexico as it lies in its lakes"(vol. 3) -- portrait of Ferdinand Cortes (vol. 4) -- minature portraits on frontispiece of 'The five most famous men in Peru and Chile' (vol. 5). -- illustration of 'The people of Florida sacrificing their first born to the sun'.

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An abridged translation of the first three decades of Herrara's 'Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos' originally published in Madrid, 1601-15.

Vols. 1 and 2 printed in 1725; vols. 3-6 printed in 1726.

Title page of each vol. in red and black.

Includes decorative head- and tail-pieces and initial letters.

Includes index in v. 6.

Final page or leaf of advertisements (vols. 1, 4, 5, 6).

Illustrative plates in vol. 1: following p. 62, 218; in vol. 2, following p. 134, 372, 378, 380; in vol. 3, following p. 190, 226; in vol. 4: following p. 290, 356; in vol. 5, preceding p. 1, following p. 374; in vol. 6, preceding p.1.