[Rarebooks] FS: 1st Italian trans. of Las Casas' Conquest of the West Indies. Venice: 1645

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(AMERICANA) Casas, Bartolome de las. CONQUISTA DELL'INDIE OCCIDENTALI... Tradotta in Italiano per Opera di Marco Ginammi... Venice: Presso Marco Ginammi. 1645. First Italian edition, second issue (with the 1645 rather than 1644 date). Sm. 4to. 8,(4),xvii,(30)-184pp. Double column text in Spanish and Italian, and several sections of Latin text. Large woodcut device on title page. Early 20th c. half dark blue morocco over marbled boards, hinges a bit scuffed. T.e.g. A few small stains at blank fore-edge of outer leaves. Trace of removed bookplate on front pastedown.	$1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Famous account of the Spanish conquest of the West Indies, written by "The Apostle to the Indians," Las Casas (1474-1566). Palau 46958; Sabin 11248; Alden & Landis 645/28.


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