Lopez de Gomara (Francisco). Histoire generalle des Indes occidentales et terres neuves, qui jusques à present ont esté descouvertes, traduite en francois par M. Fumée Sieur de Marly le Chastel, 1st edition in French, Paris: Michel Sonnius, 1568, signatures A6 A-2I8 2K2 only, lacking index (i.e. 12 leaves at end, signatures A8 B4), woodcut title-device, headpieces and initials, damp-staining and soiling, title-page repaired at foot not affecting text, early ownership inscriptions, endpapers renewed, contemporary limp vellum, soiled (16.7 x 10.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Cf. Adams L1479, Sabin 27746, Ternaux 110, all with the date 1569. Rare first edition in French of La historia general de las Indias, first printed at Zaragoza in 1552-3, 'a work of the highest importance ... indispensable to the student of Spanish affairs in America' (Sabin, describing the first edition, no. 27724).
Lopez de Gomara (Francisco). Histoire generalle des Indes occidentales et terres neuves, qui jusques à present ont esté descouvertes, traduite en francois par M. Fumée Sieur de Marly le Chastel, 1st edition in French, Paris: Michel Sonnius, 1568, signatures A6 A-2I8 2K2 only, lacking index (i.e. 12 leaves at end, signatures A8 B4), woodcut title-device, headpieces and initials, damp-staining and soiling, title-page repaired at foot not affecting text, early ownership inscriptions, endpapers renewed, contemporary limp vellum, soiled (16.7 x 10.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Cf. Adams L1479, Sabin 27746, Ternaux 110, all with the date 1569. Rare first edition in French of La historia general de las Indias, first printed at Zaragoza in 1552-3, 'a work of the highest importance ... indispensable to the student of Spanish affairs in America' (Sabin, describing the first edition, no. 27724).
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