Den spiegel der spaensche tierannije geschiet in Westindien waerin te sien is de onmenschelijcke wreede feijten der Spanjarden met samen de beschrijvinge der selver lant en volcken aert en nature allen Vaderlant lieuende en Vrome Voorstãders ten exempel voorgestelt. / In Spans beschreven door den E. bischop don fray bartholome de las Casas van S. dominicus oorden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566

Contributor:

Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Dutch

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Indians, Treatment of--Latin America.

Indians, Treatment of.

Latin America.

Spain--Colonies--America.

Spain.

Colonies.

America.

Penn Provenance:

Havre, Gustave van, 1817-1892 (bookplate).

Gogh, Vincent van, 1866-1911 (bookplate).

Paul, John Jay.

Dechert, Robert (donor)

Physical Description:

52 leaves. : 17 illustrations ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Cornelis Lodewijwicksz[oon] vander Plasse, 1620.

Notes:

Illustrated title, engraved. The title illustration and in-text cuts are after the De Bry edition (Frankfurt, 1598).

One in a series of Dutch editions of this work. See Hanke, Las Casas as cited below.

A translation of the author's Breuissima relacion ..., Seville, 1552, together with extracts from other Las Casas tracts.

Hanke, Las Casas 515 (note); Palau 46976 (title variant); Sabin 11259.

Local Notes:

Dechert Collection copy purchased February 14, 1939 by Robert Dechert from Rosenbach's 1938 catalog "The Sea" (item 400).

Dechert Collection copy has the armorial bookplate of Gustave Charles Antoine Marie Van Havre with the penciled annotation No. 303 on front pastedown.

Dechert Collection copy has bookplate of Vincent Van Gogh (cousin of the famous painter) on front pastedown.

Dechert Collection copy has pencil annotation with price information and the name Paul on front pastedown.

Cited in:

Rosenbach Company Catalog, 1938, 400

OCLC:

6083785