Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 387

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(EARLY EXPLORATION.) Stevens, Henry; editor. Collection of 6 printings of early Spanish manuscripts by Las Casas, Cortes, and more. [12], [11], [21], [10], [14], [12] pages. 4to, later 1/2 morocco; moderate foxing; unopened. London: Chiswick Press for Henry Stevens, 1854
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Stevens transcribed these 16th-century Spanish manuscripts, wrote English introductions to each, and had them printed in a small black-letter edition by Charles Whittingham of the Chiswick Press. Memorial de Don Diego Colon . . . el Rey sobre la conversion e consuacio de las gentes de las yndias, 1520 Carta . . . de las Casas . . . en que suplicia se . . . poner remedio a los agravios de los yndios, 1520 Carta de . . . las Casas . . . Padres de Guatimala y del Chiapa . . . sobre de que no se vendiesen los repartimientos o encomiendas de los yndios, 1554 Carta de amonestacio . . . de las Casas . . . tocante a la libertad y jurisdicion ecclica, 1514 Parescer o determinacio de los senores theologos de Salamanca sobre de que no deben ser baptizados los yndios, 1541 Carta de Hernando Cortes . . . Carlos Quinto mostrandole su parescer acerca de los repartiminentos de los yndios, 1542. We trace no set at auction since the 1884 Murphy sale, when one brought $31.