Bartolomé de las CASAS
La découverte des Indes Occidentales par les Espagnols. Ecrite par Dom Balthazar [sic] de Las-Casas, Evêque de Chiapa. Dédié à Monseigneur le Comte de Toulouse[The Discovery of the West Indies by the Spaniards]
André Pralard|Paris 1697|9.5 x 16.8 cm|Relié
First edition of this French translation prepared by Abbé J.B. Morvan de Bellegarde, who here renders six of the nine books of the celebrated Brevissima relación by Las Casas, first published in Seville in 1552 (cf. Sabin 11273. Medina BHA 1085n. Streit I:733. Palau 46966. JCB (4) 344-345. Leclerc 337. "European Americana" 697/33).
Contemporary full marbled calf binding, spine gilt in compartments with decorative tooling, red morocco label, gilt rolls to head and tail caps, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt fillets to board edges, red edges.
Minor repairs to joints, discreet restoration in the inner margin of the frontispiece.
A handsome copy.
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