Narratio regionum Indicarum per Hispanos quosdam deuastatarum verissima
By: priùs quidem per Episcopum Bertholomaeum Casaum, natione Hispanum Hispanicè conscripta, & anno 1551, hispati, Hispanicè, anno verò hoc 1598, Latinè excusa.
Contributors: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress); Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Sumptibus Theodori de Bry, & Ioannis Saurii typis
Published: 1598
Place of publication: Francofurti
Language: lat
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: Indians, Treatment of -- Latin America; Spain -- Colonies -- America
Work titles: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias.
Description: First Latin translation and first illustrated edition of Las Casas' Brevissima relación and three other tracts, with the series of 17 plates illustrating the cruelties practised upon the Indians by the Spaniards, as related by Las Casas.
Notes: Title within ornamental border; Iodocus a Winghe designed the plates.

Signatures: ):( A-S⁴.

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Latin translation from the French ed. of 1579, which was a translation of the Spanish title: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias.