La Historia General de las Indias

by Gonzalo Hernandez de Oviedo y. Valdes

$175,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

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✠⁴ a-z⁸ &¹⁰ - &10 ; 4 ,cxciii leaves, lacking terminal blank. Numerous in-text woodcuts. Marginal notes in at least three hands. Titlepage printed in red and black. The final leaf inscribed by Oviedo. 4to. Eighteenth-century mottled calf, spine gilt extra, leather label. Titlepage mounted with upper and right compartments of title border supplied from clippings of other contemporary borders, text on verso supplied in manuscript. Following leaf supplied and remargined to fit,

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