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Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de (d. 1625) The General History of the Vast Continent and Islands of America, Commonly Call'd the West-Indies.
London: Printed for Jer. Batley, 1725-1726.
First edition, six octavo volumes; first volume with portrait frontispiece of Christopher Columbus, title pages printed in red and black; the set from the library at Auchincruive in Scotland, with bookplate inside front board and signature of Richard Alexander Oswald on first leaf of text, volume one; illustrated with seventeen plates, most are folding, several are maps; bound in uniform contemporary paneled and sprinkled English calf, a few rebacked, some boards detached, in need of some repair, contents good, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (6)
See Hazel Wilkinson, "Benjamin Franklin's London printing 1725-26", Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 110:2 (June 2016), 139-180, Appendix A, no. 17; ESTC N1037; Sabin 31557.
