The general history of the vast continent and islands of America, [electronic resource] : commonly call'd, the West-Indies, from the first discovery thereof: With the Best Accounts the People could give of their Antiquities. Collected from the original relations sent to the kings of Spain. By Antonio de Herrera, Historiographer to His Catholick Majesty. Translated into English by Capt. John Stevens. ... Illustrated with cutts and maps.

London : printed for Jer. Batley, at the Dove in Pater-Noster-Row, M.DCC.XXV[1725]-26.

Great Britain -- England -- London.

English

6v., plates : maps, ports. ; 8⁰.

"An abridged and inaccurate translation of the first three decades of Herrera's 'Historia general do los hechos de los castellanos,' divided into six decades, neither chapters nor decades corresponding with the original." (NUC).
Titlepages in red and black.
Vols. 1,2 dated 1725; vols. 3-6 dated 1726.
The preface in volume 1 is in six pages, and the headpiece to the preface and to page 1 represents a hill with a flag on top, with a sun in the background; Sig. B is under the 'a' of 'Seneca'.
Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.

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Sabin, 31557
English Short Title Catalog, N1037.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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