An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America. Containing the most exact relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd cruelties on the Indians ... / By Don Bartholomew de las Casas, bishop of Chiapa ... Illustrated with cuts. To which is added, The art of travelling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English. 1699

Language:

English

French

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Indians, Treatment of.

Slavery--Latin America.

Slavery.

Latin America.

Spain--Colonies--America.

Spain.

Colonies.

America.

Genre:

Travel literature -- England -- 17th century.

Penn Provenance:

G. A. C. (?) (bookplate)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 248, 40 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates (2 double leaves) : illustrations ; 19 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by J. Darby for D. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-Bar, J. Harris at the Harrow in Little Britain, and Andr. Bell at the Cross-Keys and Bible in Cornhil., 1699.

Notes:

Signatures: A⁴ B-T⁸.

A translation from the French, apparently from the Relation des voyages et des découvertes que les Espagnols ont fait dans les Indes Occidentales...Amsterdam, 1698. The English work, following the French, contains abridged translations of the following tracts of Las Casas: Breuissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias (p. 1-104); Lo que se sigue es un pedaco de vna carta (p. 104-114); Entre los remedios (p. 114-138); Aqui se cotiene treynta proposiciones (p. 138-149); Aqui se contiene vna disputa, o controuersia (p. 150-160); Este es vn tratado...sobre la materia de los yndios (p. 160-184); Entre los remedios [apparently another version] 8p. 184-248).

"The art of travelling to advantage": 40 p. at end.

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.), C797

OCLC:

19374907