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Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1942., 1942. First edition. First edition. Large 8vo. 862 pp. Translated by Charles Upson Clark. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 102. Beautifully bound in blue leather with gilt illustration on the front cover; gilt ruling; gilt lettering to spine; gilt dentelles; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Antonio Vazquez de Espinosa (d. 1630) was a Spanish Carmelite friar who abandoned his academic ambitions in order to serve as a priest in the Americas. His manuscript of 1628 was a "lost" manuscript until translator Clark found it in the Barberini collection in the Vatican. Spending the years from 1610 to 1622 in the Indies, this compendium details descriptions of the people, products, history and administration of the whole Spanish empire from Mexico to Chile, not omitting the Philippine Islands or Paraguay ... most of these places he visited himself , and he frequently closes his chapters with the statement that 'all of this I verified with my…
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Washington DC: The Smithsonian Institution. Good with no dust jacket; Usual library stamps and markings, boards rubbed.. 1942. Hardcover. Publication 3646. Green cloth binding. Translated by Charles Upson Clark. xii, 862 pp. Index. A detailed account of Spanish America written in 1628-29.; Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections; Ex-Library; Vol. 102; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Date Published 1942
- Keywords West Indies, Latin American History
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