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HERRERA. Histoire Generale. 1660-1671

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Paris: 1660; 1660; 1671. 3 volumes. Quarto (9x6 ¾ inches, 230x170 mm). Early dyed calf, spine gilt extra. Condition: Minor foxing and light dampstaining. Provenance: Lallemant de Betz (armorial bookplate on the front pastedown). the first translated edition of herrera's great history of the new world, complete with the rare final volume. Appointed Royal historiographer in 1596, Herrera produced this comprehensive history of the Spanish in the Americas between 1601 and 1615. Originally issued in eight "decades" covering 1492 to 1554, only the first three of these volumes were translated and appeared in this French edition and in an English edition of 1726. These volumes include notable accounts of Columbus, Vespucci, Balboa, the conquest of the Antilles, and especially Cortés and the conquest of Mexico. The three volumes of the French translation were issued separately, and the third volume was issued eleven years after the others. The present set is the second edition in French of the first decade, and first editions in French of the others. "The three volumes, having been published separately, with different titles, are rarely found together" (Sabin). European Americana 660/88; JCB (3) III, p.38; Palau 114293; Sabin 31548, 31549 and 31550; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 12f, g, and h.

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