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(INDIANS.) García, Gregorio.
Origen de los Indios de el nuevo mundo e
Indias Occidentales.
Portrait of St. Thomas of Aquinas and other text illustrations. [20],
7-336, [80] pages. Folio, later
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calf, minor wear; minimal dampstaining.
Madrid: Martínez Abad, 1729
[2,000/3,000]
Expanded second edition, after the 1607 Valencia first edition. An effort to deduce the origins
of the American Indians, using linguistic evidence and their own oral history. One of a series of
attractive folio editions of 17th-century works edited by Andrés González de Barcia. Borba de
Moraes, page I:346; Cowan 1933, page 229 (notes three references to California); European
Americana 729/98; Medina, BHA 2713; Palau 98007n; Sabin 26567.
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(INDIANS.) González Dávila, Gil.
Teatro eclesiastico de la primitiva Iglesia
de las Indias Occidentales.
[14], 308, [8] pages; [8], “119” leaves. 2 volumes. Folio,
contemporary vellum, worn, blank book tags on backstrips; lacking map, second volume
with wastepaper endpapers, lacking front free endpaper, moderate toning; early inscriptions
and inked stamps on title pages, inked stamps erased from title and elsewhere.
Madrid: Díaz de la Carrera, 1649 and 1655
[1,000/1,500]
European Americana 649/59; Medina, BHA 1133, 1235; Palau 105289; Sabin 18777
(“includes some valuable vocabularies, and accounts of the first introduction of arts and letters”).
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