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Acosta J de [America]. Acosta, J. de. Historie Naturael en Morael van de Westersche Indien. Waer inne ghehandelt wort van de merckelijckste dinghen des Hemels/ Elementen/ Metalen/ Planten ende Gedierten van dien: Als oock de Manieren/ Ceremonien/ Wetten/ Regeeringen/ ende Oorlogen der Indianen. Dutch transl. J. Huyghen van Linschoten. Amst., Broer Jansz., 2nd ed., (,(p., large woodcut on title-p., ills., contemp. overlapping (modern calligraphed) vellum, 4to. - New endpapers; annot. in pen on title-p; last cut sl. short. Binding fine. = Tiele Tiele, Mémoire Muller, America Sabin Alden/ Landis Klooster De Backer/ Sommervogel I, p. Howgego A("providing a complete analysis of the Amerindian world"); cf. Cox II, p.254f; cf. Arents cf. Church early account on the history of America, dealing i.a. with the early history of the Indians of Peru and Mexico. The work was first published in Latin in Sevilla, first published in Spanish (Sevilla) in stayed as a Jesuit missionary in South and Middle America for a period of and "(...) was a careful and accurate observer of all that he saw, and his work is of great and intrinsic value. (...) His Historia Natural y moral de las Indias, a work of standard authority, attained great popularity, and was translated into nearly every European language. (...)" (Church). "Acosta's official duties obliged him to personally investigate a very extensive range of territory, providing him with a practical knowledge of the province, and of its aboriginal inhabitants. (...). Acosta was one of the first scholars to formulate a systemic theory of anthropology, suggesting a classification of different peoples into different types, and anticipating later theories of social evolution." (Howgego). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE L. Call for price