The general history of the vast continent and islands of America
Subtitle: commonly call'd the West-Indies, from the first discovery thereof: with the best accounts the people could give of their antiquities.
By: Collected 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.
Contributors: Stevens, John, d. 1726, tr.
Publisher: Printed for J. Batley
Published: 1725
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Latin America -- History -- To 1600.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Early works to 1800.; America -- Early accounts to 1600.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Title in red and black.
An 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.