Historiadores primitivos de las Indias Occidentales
Subtitle: que juntò, traduxo en parte, y sacò à luz, ilustrados con erudìtas notas, y copiosos indices, el ill.
By: Señor Don Andrès Gonzalez de Barcia ... divididos en tres tomos, cuyo contenido se verà en el folio siguiente.
Published: 1749
Place of publication: En Madrid
Language: spa
Subjects: Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800; Latin America -- History -- Sources; America -- Early accounts to 1600
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Sources.; Early accounts to 1600.
Description: After having published various works relating to the history of Spanish America, Barcia began to edit the works contained in this collection which were printed as early as 1731 according to his statement in the 2nd edition of Pinelo's Epitome. They were, however, "not published until 1749 (six years after Barcia's death ...) when general titles to the 3 vols. were printed, with a table of contents, of which there are two different impressions; one the most modern is printed by Ibarra." A large number of the separate parts, and possibly also the 21 copies on large paper, mentioned in the account of the remaining stock of this work in 1778, were sold as waste paper early in the 19th century.--Cf. Rich, Bibl. amer. nova, 1846, v. 1, p. 96.
Notes: The 6th part of vol. 1 has a title-page (the title-page or half-title (?) preceding the firth part is wanting in the present copy); the other relations have caption titles. Each relation is paged separately excepting no. [2-4] in v. 1, [11-12] and [15-16] in v. 3.
Signatures: t. 1, 2 preliminary leaves without sig.; A, [par.], B-Q, S-Z, Aa-Kk in twos; Ll in one; 1 p. l. without sig., A in fives, B-F in fours, G in one; A-E in fours; F-H in twos, A-I in fours.--t. 2. 1 p. l. without sig., A-Bb in fours, Cc in two, Dd in one, [par.]-[par.]15 in twos; A-Gg in fours, Hh in two, [par]-[par]11 in twos, [par.]12 in one.--t. 3. 1 p. l. without sig., [par.]-[par. par.] in tows; A-Y in fours, [par.]-[par. par. par. par. par. par. par] in twos; Z-Dd in fours, Ee-Ef in twos; A-K in tows; A-Hh in tows; A-F in fours.
Some of these treatises were combined in one volume and published without date or place, (but previous to the present collection) with title: Varias historias de los primeros descubridores de las Indias. I. Historia del almirante Don Christoval Colòn por su hijo D. Fernando Colòn. II. Relacion de las Indias de Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo. III. Examen de los naufragios etc. de Alvar-Nuñez Cabeza de Baca. Iv. Naufragios de Alvar-Nuñez Cabeza de Baca. V. Historia del Rio de la Plata, y Paraguay, escrita por Ulderico Schimidèl. VI. Historia general de las Indias por Franciso Lopez de Gomara.--Cf. Catálogo de la bibl. de Salvá, t. II, no. 3344.