An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America
Subtitle: containing the most exact relations hitherto publish'd of their unparallel'd cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above forty millions of people : with the propositions offer'd to the king of Spain to prevent the further ruin of the West-Indies
By: by Don Bartholomew de las Casas ... ; illustrated with cuts ; to which is added The art of travelling ...
Contributors: John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by J. Darby for D. Brown ... J. Harris ... and Andr. Bell ...
Published: 1699
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Indians, Treatment of -- America -- Early works to 1800.; Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Art de voyager utilement. English.
Notes: A translation from the French, apparently from the Relation des voyages et des de'couvertes que les Espagnols ont fait dans les Indes Occidentales ... Amsterdam, 1698. The English work, following the French, contains abridged translations of the following tracts of Las Casas: Brevissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias (p. 1-104); Lo que se sigue es un pedaço de una carta (p. 104-114); Entre los remedios (p. 114-138); Aqui se cõtiene treynta proposiciones (p. 138-149); Aqui se contiene una disputa, o controversia (p. 150-160); Este es un tratado ... sobre la materia de los yndios (p. 160-184); Entre los remedios [apparently another version] (p. 184-248).
"The art of travelling to advantage": 40 p. at end.
Signatures: A⁴ B-T⁸.
Thacher, II, p. 7 (Americana)
Wing (2nd ed., 1994) C797