Twee onderscheydene reys-togten d'eene ter zee en d'andere te land, in de West-Indien, beyde gedaan in het jaar 1524

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Author: Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (1549-1625) Year: 1706 Publisher: Pieter Vander Aa Place: Leyden Description: [2]+107+[10] pages, with vignette on title, one folding plate and two folding maps, and index. Small octavo ( 7 1/2" x 5 ") bound modern green gilt lettered cloth. First edition thus. An early Dutch translation of Herrera Y Tordesilla's Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos , first printed Madrid in 1601. This work was issued by Pieter Vander Aa and formed part of a larger work on early voyages translated to Dutch Naaukeurige versameling der gedenk-waardigste zee en land-reysen na Oost en West-Indien . The present work excerpts from Gil Gonzales Davila's 1524 account of Honduras and St. Dominica, with an interesting plate, and from Cortes' conquest of Mexico, with two maps of the region. Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas was a Spanish colonial historian and official chronicler of the Indies. Antonio de Herrera had a long and distinguished career in which he wrote one of the most encyclopedic accounts of Spanish activities in the New World. In his early years, he was appointed as secretary to Vespasiano Gonzaga, viceroy of Naples, where he began his history of the reign of Philip II. Herrera's loyalty to the cause of the crown attracted the attention of the court, and in 1596 he was appointed the official historian of the Indies, with the task of providing a favorable account of the Conquest and settlement of the New World to combat the negative ver

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