HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de. The General History of the Vast Continent and Islands of America...Collected from the Original Relations sent to the Kings of Spain . London: Jer. Batley, 1725-1726.
HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de. The General History of the Vast Continent and Islands of America...Collected from the Original Relations sent to the Kings of Spain . London: Jer. Batley, 1725-1726. 6 volumes, 8 o (201 x 121 mm). Title-pages printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece portraits of Columbus and Cortes, 3 folding engraved maps, 13 plates (most folding). (N1 in vol.1 with a corner torn away.) Contemporary Cambridge-style panelled calf, spines sparingly tooled with volume numbers only, edges sprinkled red (vol. 1 neatly rebacked). Provenance : Sir Robert Menzies of that Ilk, Bart. (bookplates on title-page versos in vols.2-6); W. J. Detert (gift inscriptions on fly-leaf to): Pacific Union Club, 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, in an attractive binding. A highly important collection of Spanish narratives of exploration and conquest, drawing on some sources no longer extant. Herrera was royal historiographer to Philip II, III and IV of Spain and had privileged access to the archives; his ambitious and comprehensive compilation was published as Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos en las islas y tierra firme del Mar Oceano (Madrid, 1601-1615). Alden & Landis 725/95; Borba de Moraes I:399-400 (1st edition); Hill 804 ("of the greatest importance for the history of the conquest, colonization, and progress of the Spaniards in America"); Palau 114314; Sabin 31557; Wagner Spanish Southwest 12i. (6)
HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de. The General History of the Vast Continent and Islands of America...Collected from the Original Relations sent to the Kings of Spain . London: Jer. Batley, 1725-1726.
HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de. The General History of the Vast Continent and Islands of America...Collected from the Original Relations sent to the Kings of Spain . London: Jer. Batley, 1725-1726. 6 volumes, 8 o (201 x 121 mm). Title-pages printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece portraits of Columbus and Cortes, 3 folding engraved maps, 13 plates (most folding). (N1 in vol.1 with a corner torn away.) Contemporary Cambridge-style panelled calf, spines sparingly tooled with volume numbers only, edges sprinkled red (vol. 1 neatly rebacked). Provenance : Sir Robert Menzies of that Ilk, Bart. (bookplates on title-page versos in vols.2-6); W. J. Detert (gift inscriptions on fly-leaf to): Pacific Union Club, 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, in an attractive binding. A highly important collection of Spanish narratives of exploration and conquest, drawing on some sources no longer extant. Herrera was royal historiographer to Philip II, III and IV of Spain and had privileged access to the archives; his ambitious and comprehensive compilation was published as Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos en las islas y tierra firme del Mar Oceano (Madrid, 1601-1615). Alden & Landis 725/95; Borba de Moraes I:399-400 (1st edition); Hill 804 ("of the greatest importance for the history of the conquest, colonization, and progress of the Spaniards in America"); Palau 114314; Sabin 31557; Wagner Spanish Southwest 12i. (6)
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