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001 04007964
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050 00 $aE141$b.H59
100 2 $aHerrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de,$d-1625.
240 10 $aHistoria general de los hechos de los castellanos.$kSelections.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe general history of the vast continent and islands of America,$bcommonly call'd the West-Indies, from the first discovery thereof: with the best accounts the people could give of their antiquities.$cCollected from the original relations sent to the kings of Spain. By Antonio de Herrera ... Tr. into English by Capt. John Stevens ... Illustrated with cutts and maps.
260 $aLondon,$bPrinted for J. Batley,$c1725-26.
300 $a6 v.$bfronts. (v. 1, 4-6; ports.) fold. plates., 3 fold. maps.$c20 cm.
500 $aTitle in red and black.
500 $aAn abridged and inaccurate translation of the first three decades of Herrera's "Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos", divided into six decades, neither chapters nor decades corresponding with the original. cf. Stevens, H. Bibliotheca historica, p. xiii; Winsor, v.2, p. 68 and p. 563; Prescott, W.H. Conquest of Mexico, book III, chap. IX, notes.
651 0 $aLatin America$xHistory$yTo 1600.
651 0 $aAmerica$xDiscovery and exploration$xSpanish$vEarly works to 1800.
651 0 $aAmerica$xEarly accounts to 1600.
700 1 $aStevens, John,$d-1726,$etr.