História natural y moral de las Indias : en que se tratan las cosas notables del cielo, y elementos, metales, plantas, y animales dellas : y los ritos, y ceremonias, leyes, y gouierno, y guerras de los Indios / compuesta por el padre Ioseph de Acosta religioso de la Compañia de Iesus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Acosta, José de, 1540-1600, author.

Series:

Brazilian and Portuguese history and culture: Oliveira Lima Library, Monographs.

Brazilian and Portuguese history and culture: Oliveira Lima Library, Monographs

Standardized Title:

De natura Novi Orbis libri duo. Spanish

Language:

Latin

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America.

Indians of Mexico.

America--Early accounts to 1600.

America.

Latin America--Early works to 1800.

Latin America.

Indians of Mexico--Early works to 1800.

Indians of South America--Peru--Early works to 1800.

Natural history--Latin America--Pre-Linnean works.

Natural history.

Peru.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (535 pages, 36 unnumbered pages).

Manufacture:

Seuilla : En casa de Iuan de Leon, 1590.

Other Title:

Historia natvral y moral de las Indias

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1590]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

First Spanish-language edition of this important source on the Indians of Mexico and Peru and on the natural history of Latin America. Acosta, a Jesuit priest and linguist serving in Mexico and Peru from 1571 to 1588, founded a printing press in Peru. In the present work he puts forth ideas on ethnology, compares Aztec and Inca civilizations and history, and provides detailed navigational advice and discussions of New World plants, minerals, and other commodities.

"Dirigida a la serenissima infanta Doña Isabella Clara Eugenia de Austria."

In 7 "books" (libros).

Books 1-2 appeared originally in Latin under title De natura Novi Orbis libri duo, 1588-1589.

Woodcut devices, historiated initials.

General index at end, followed by "Tabla de algunos lugares de la Sagrada Escriptura, cuya declaracion se toca de passo en el discurso desta Historia," with biblical chapter titles in Latinches.

Includes index.

Reproduction of the original from Oliveira Lima Library, The Catholic University of America.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

956405802

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.