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(GUATEMALA.) Remesal, Antonio de. Historia de la provincia de S. Vicente de Chýapa ý Guatemala de la orden de . . .Sancto Domingo. Engraved title page, engraved section headings. [8], 784 pages. Folio, later vellum, minor wear; title page with minor wear and imperfectly bound; minor dampstaining, some early notes and underlining, a few headlines cropped. Madrid: [Francisco de Angulo], 1619
first edition, variant issue with engraved title page replacing the typeset one--most copies are titled "Historia general de las Indias Ocidentales. . ." An important early history of Guatemala and the neighboring Chiapas region of Mexico. Remesal was a Dominican friar who came from the Philippines to Guatemala in 1614. Sympathetic to the Indians, he included a sympathetic account of Las Casas. When his history arrived in Guatemala from Spain, all copies were seized and he was placed before the Inquisition for defaming the conquistadores. Though released, he was forced to leave the Domincan order. European Americana 619/105; Medina BHA 704 (see revised description on page VII:330: "Hemos visto ahora ejemplar con este frontis grabado en cobre, en lugar de la portada impresa que lleva la generalidad de la edición"); Palau 260793 ("obra importante y buscada"); Sabin 69550.
