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Author: Juan de Torquemada (c1562-1624) Year: 1723 (1725) Publisher: Nicolás Rodríguez Franco Place: Madrid Description: 3 volumes. Volume I: engraved title page, 1t leaves+768+[36 index] pages with folding map. Volume II: Engraved title page+623+[28 index] pages. Volume III: engraved title page+5 leaves+4+63+[21 index] pages. Small folio (12" x 8 1/4") bound in modern quarter white morocco five raised spine bands over white buckram. (European Americana 725/195; Hill 1707; Medina, BHA 2491; Palau 335033; Sabin 96212; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 18a) Second edition. The first edition was printed by Mathias Clavijo in Seville in 1615. As Nicolás Rodríguez Franco, the printer of the second edition, informed his readers in his Proemio, few exemplars of the first edition survive because the greater part of the print-run was lost in a shipwreck, and only three copies were known to him. Eight copies of the first edition exist in various libraries in North America and Europe, two of which lack the original frontispiece, and the other six of which lack also the first 32 pages. A ninth copy exists in Mexico divided between one owner who possesses the first volume, and another who possesses the other two. The errors and omissions were made good in the second edition by reference to the original manuscript which, so Franco discloses, was in the library of Don Andrés González de Barcia. The second edition has the date 1723 on the title page, but the Proemio itself is dated 20 January 1725,

• Binding: Hardcover

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