TORQUEMADA, Juan de (c.1562-1624). Primera [- Segunda y Tercera] Parte de los veinte i un libros rituales i Monarchia Indiana y con el origen y guerras de los Indios Ocidentales. Madrid: Nicolas Rodriguez Franco, 1723.

TORQUEMADA, Juan de (c.1562-1624). Primera [- Segunda y Tercera] Parte de los veinte i un libros rituales i Monarchia Indiana y con el origen y guerras de los Indios Ocidentales. Madrid: Nicolas Rodriguez Franco, 1723.

The second and best edition of this “key work on the early history of Spanish North America” (Hill). Written by the Franciscan provincial superior of Mexico, this edition was corrected and updated by Barcia Carballido y Zúñiga. The text makes particular use of the unpublished manuscript of Gerónimo Mendieta, who reached Mexico in 1554 and spent his life among the Indians. His highly critical work on the exploitation of the Indians by the colonists was not published separately until 1870. Most copies of the first edition (Seville, 1615) were lost in a shipwreck on the voyage to Mexico. Hill 1707; Medina 2491; Palau 335033; Sabin 96212.

Folio (299 x 208mm). 3 engraved titles by Irala; woodcut initials and typographic ornaments; one folding hand-colored map (one index leaf bound out of order; a few marginal tears, occasionally affecting edge of text; one long tape repair; a few leaves browned; faint marginal dampstaining). Modern painted half vellum (wear to corners). Provenance: Carlos Cruz Montt (b. 1876, notable art collector; bookplate) – Pedro Vindel (1865-1921; pencil inscription dated 1930).

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