Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos en las islas y tierra firme del mar oceano
By: Escrita por Antonio de Herrera coronista mayor de Su Magestad ...
Contributors: Barcía Carballido y Zúñiga, Andrés González de, 1673-1743; Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Publisher: En la officina real de N. Rodriguez Franco
Published: 1726
Place of publication: Madrid
Language: spa
Subjects: Latin America -- History -- To 1600.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.; America -- Early accounts to 1600.
Genres: Early accounts to 1600.
Notes: Vol. 2-8's title varies slightly.

"Fee de erratas" (dated Feb. 12, 1729) in v. 2, and 3.

Vol. 5 published by F. Martinez Abad.

Edited by A. González de Barcía Carballido y Zúñiga.

Each engraved title is divided into from ten to fourteen compartments, in which is represented some scene of the conquest of the Indians by the invading Spaniards, or a portrait of some eminent Conquistador; seventy-two battle-scenes, views of human sacrifices, or Indian life, and thirty-nine portraits are thus exhibited.

Dates of publication: Decada quarta, 1736 on t.-p.; Decada quinta, 1728 on t.-p.; Decada sesta, 1726 on t.-p. (colophon dated 1727).

Andrés González de Barcía Carballido y Zúñiga edited "Descripcion de las Indias Occidentales" and compiled "Tabla general ..." Cf. BM (compact ed.) and Sabin.

Decada sesta has colophon: En Madrid: En la imprenta de Francisco Martinez Abad, ... año de MDCC.XXVII.

Each v. has engraved t.-p. and head piece.

Text printed in double columns.

Sabin 31546.

Vellum bound.

Vol. 1 wanting; title pages to Decada Secunda, Decada Tertia, Decada Septima, and Decada Octava wanting.
Table of contents: title: I. Descripcion de las Indias Occidentales; Decada Primera; title: II. Decada Segunda; Decada Terzera; title: III. Decada Quarta; Decada Quinta; title: IV. Decada Sesta; Decada Septima; title: V. Decada Octava; Tabla general de las cosas notables, y personas contenidas en la descripcion de las Indias Occidentales, i en las ocho Decadas antecedentes.