LAS CASAS (BARTHOLOME DE)Regionum indicarum per hispanos olim devastatarum, engraved title with wide historiated border, 17 large engraved illustrations (depicting acts of violence) by Theodor de Bry title trimmed at upper margin with small loss of image, 3 single wormholes and with small hole, light dampstain at fore-margin, occasional single brown or damp spots, modern half vellum [John Carter Brown III, p.109; Sabin 11285, calling for additional title and preliminaries not present in this copy], small 4to (185 x 155mm.), Heidelberg, Wilhelm Walter, 1664FootnotesFirst Heidelberg and third Latin edition of Las Casas' polemic against the atrocities carried out by the Spanish conquerors in the Americas and West Indies, graphically illustrated with Theodor de Bry's engravings depicting all manner of torture and massacre.
Provenance: "Ex Biblio Barcheous[?]...30", ink inscription on title.
LAS CASAS (BARTHOLOME DE)Regionum indicarum per hispanos olim devastatarum, engraved title with wide historiated border, 17 large engraved illustrations (depicting acts of violence) by Theodor de Bry title trimmed at upper margin with small loss of image, 3 single wormholes and with small hole, light dampstain at fore-margin, occasional single brown or damp spots, modern half vellum [John Carter Brown III, p.109; Sabin 11285, calling for additional title and preliminaries not present in this copy], small 4to (185 x 155mm.), Heidelberg, Wilhelm Walter, 1664FootnotesFirst Heidelberg and third Latin edition of Las Casas' polemic against the atrocities carried out by the Spanish conquerors in the Americas and West Indies, graphically illustrated with Theodor de Bry's engravings depicting all manner of torture and massacre.
Provenance: "Ex Biblio Barcheous[?]...30", ink inscription on title.
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