| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | 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
| | | | Alt. Title: | Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos. English. Selections
| | | | Creator: | Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625 | | | | | Stevens, John, d. 1726 | | | | Publication: | Printed for J. Batley, London,1725-26. | | | | Notes: | Title in red and black. An abridged and inaccurate translation of the first three decades of Herrera's "Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos", divided into six decades, neither chapters nor decades corresponding with the original. cf. Stevens, H. Bibliotheca historica, p. xiii; Winsor, v.2, p. 68 and p. 563; Prescott, W.H. Conquest of Mexico, book III, chap. IX, notes. | | | | Call #: | E143 H565 Vault | | | | Extent: | 6 v. fronts. (v. 1, 4-6; ports.) fold. plates., 3 fold. maps. 20 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Spanish America -- History | America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish | America -- Early accounts to 1600 | Imprints, Early English To 1750
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