Bartolomé de las Casas, 1699

Six of Nine Indian Tracts in English
Bartolomé de las Casas, 1699
CASAS, Bartolomé de las (1474-1566). 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, in the destruction of above Forty Millions of People. London: J. Darby for D. Brown, J. Harris, and Andrew Bell, 1699.

A translation, with plates, containing six of Las Casas' nine tracts on the Spanish atrocities in the New World. The first English translation was printed in 1656 under the title Tears of the Indians; it placed the number of Native American victims at 20 million, which was doubled in the present edition, a translation of the 1697 French edition. The plates, present here, are frequently lacking. Alden & Landis 699/33; Church 780; Field 881; JCB (3) IV:384; Sabin 11289; Wing C-797.

Octavo (191 x 114mm). Two engraved leaves of plates with 22 scenes after de Bry (usually folding leaves, here bound as four leaves; plates clean, browning and spotting throughout text pages). Modern paneled calf (Zambrano library label on front pastedown).