Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566

Title:

Narratio regionum Indicarum per Hispanos quosdam deuastatarum verissima : priùs quidem per Episcopum Bartholomæum Casaum, natione Hispanum Hispanicè conscripta, & Anno 1551. Hispali, Hispanicè, Anno verò hoc 1598.

Alternate Title(s):

Narratio regionvm Indicarvm per Hispanos qvosdam deuastatarum verissima

Published / Created:

Latinè excusa, Francofurti : Sumptibus Theodori de Bry, & Ioannis Saurii typis, Anno M.D.XCVIII [1598]

Physical Description:

[8], 141, [3] p. : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
F1411 .C37 1598
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

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Classification:

Books

Notes:

Signatures: )(⁴ A-S⁴ (S4 blank).

Translation into Latin from the original French of: Tyrannies et cruautez des Espagnols. Antwerp : F. Raphelengius, 1579; itself a translation of: Brevissima relacion. Seville : Sebastian Trugillo, 1552 .

T.p. enclosed in an engraved rule-border.

17 engraved plates by Theodor and Johann Theodor de Bry; after Joost van Winghe within text throughout.

Running title reads: Crudelitates Hispanorum in Indiis patratae

BAC: BAC copy has parchment binding over boards; title label, largely rubbed off, on spine; text block edges sprinkled red; unidentified armorial bookplate on front pastedown.

Exhibition History:

Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)

Subject Terms:

Indians, Treatment of -- Early works to 1800. | Indians of South America -- Early works to 1800. | Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Early works to 1800. | America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Early works to 1800. | Huth, Henry, 1815–1878 -- Bookplate (BEIN) | Robinson, Charles Leonard Frost, d. 1916 -- Bookplate (BEIN) | White, F. B. -- Autograph, 1917 (BEIN)

Form/Genre:

Engravings.

Contributors:

Bry, Theodor de, 1528–1598, engraver. | Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561–1623?, engraver. | Winghe, Joost van, d. 1603, ill. | Bry, Theodor de, 1528–1598, publisher. | Saur, Johannes, 1572 or 1573–1636, printer.