114
General history of the Continent & islands of America by Herrera.
6. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 123, no. 209, as above.
HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS,
Antonio de.
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, collected from the Original Relations sent to
the Kings of Spain. By Antonio de Herrera, Historiographer to His Catholick Majesty. Translated into
English by Capt. John Stevens. Illustrated with Cutts and Maps. Vol. I. [-VI.]
London: Printed for
Jer. Batley,
m. dcc. xxv.-m. dcc. xxvi.
[1725-6.]
E141 .H59
First Edition of this translation. 6 vol. 8vo. I, 194 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece of Christopher Columbus, folded engraved
map, 2 folded engraved plates, publisher’s advertisement on the last page; II, 219 leaves, folded engraved map by Eman. Bowen, 4 folded engraved plates; III, 207 leaves, 3 folded engraved plates, including “A Hidrographical draught of Mexico as it
lies in its lakes”; IV, 213 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece of Ferdinand Cortes, 2 folded engraved plates, 1 of “The
Thirteen Yngas or Sovereigns that Reign’d Successively in Peru before the Arrival of the Spaniards”, publisher’s advertisement
on the last leaf; V, 217 leaves, engraved frontispiece with portraits of “The five most famous men in Peru and Chile” in circular
compartments; VI, 221 leaves, folded engraved frontispiece, publisher’s advertisement on the last leaf; all titles printed
in red and black.
Sabin 31557.
Winsor II. 68.
This edition not in Field.
John Carter Brown 355.
These volumes were in Jefferson’s possession before May 8, 1791, on which date he wrote from Philadelphia to his daughter Martha at Monticello, to inform her he was sending it with other books of South American
history, to be placed in his library.
For a note on the author, see the previous entry.
John Stevens, d. 1726, scholar and antiquarian, was probably of Irish birth; he settled in London before 1695, and devoted himself to
literature, and to the translation of Spanish and Portuguese histories and literary masterpieces into English. This work is
an abridgment of the first three decades of Herrera’s
Historia general de los Hechos de los Castellanos, and was reprinted in 1740.
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Description des Indes occidentales par Herrera. avec la navigation de le Maire.
p. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 122, no. 282, as above, but reading
fol.
HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS,
Antonio de.
Description des Indes Occidentales, qu’on appelle aujourdhuy le Novveav Monde: par Antoine de Herrera, Grand Chroniqueur des Indes, & Chroniqueur de Castille: Translatee d’
Espagnol en
François. A la quelle sont adjoustees quelques autres Descriptions des mesmes pays, avec la Navigation du vaillant Capitaine de Mer
Jaques le Maire, & de plusieurs autres. Le contenu de cest œuvre se veoit en la page suyvante.
A
Amsterdam: chez
Michel Colin, Anno
m. d. c. xxii
. Avec Privilege. [1622.]
E141 .H551
Folio.
First Edition in
French, 5 parts in 1, with separate half-titles, 132 leaves including the last blank, printed title followed by an engraved half-title
with the arms of Castile at the head, within a border in compartments, with the map of the Americas, and representations of
the Mexican deities, 14 numbered engraved double-page maps in the first part, engraved portrait of Le Maire, 1 folded and
2 double-page maps and 5 full-page plates
